Feed and water device for chickens.



No. 697,343. Patnted Apr. 8, I902.

. G. C. LATHROP.

FEED AND WATER DEVICE FOR GHICKENS.

(Application filed July 16, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE CHARLES LATI-IROP, OF 'IVASI-IINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

FEED AND WATER DEVICE FOR CHICKENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,343, dated April 8,1902.

Application filed July 16,1901,

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE CHARLES LA- THROP, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed and WaterDevices for Chickens, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provideafeed and Watering devicewherein chickens are prevented from getting within and polluting thefood or Water contained therein, and the device for this purposecomprises a vertically-corrugated part having a plurality of contiguoustroughs on its Walls and a seating-basin into which the troughs open atthe seating end of the device, whereby water or food contained in thebasin is exposed at the lower end of each trough into which the chickencan only put its head and eat or drink, each chicken thereby feedingfrom a trough independent of the others from the same basin. For thefeeding and watering of chicks the device is specially designed and isillustrated in Figure 1 in perspective, in which a vertically-troughedbody of conical form is seated with its wall-formed troughs opening attheir lower ends into the food and water receptacle. Fig. 2 is avertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a partial top view, and Fig. 4 apartial vertical section. Fig. 5 shows the corrugated conical trough asit is produced from sheet metal, the radial corrugations being seen fromthe under side.

In the drawings the preferred form of the body or trough cover is shownconical, with its troughs 1 produced from a sheet of metal of circularform; but the trough-forming body may be of any shape, the walls ofwhich will admit of being formed into a plurality of continuous verticaltroughs at the lower ends of which the chickens feed. I prefer theconical form, because the troughs increase in depth from the apex to thebase of the cone, and this increased depth at the base thereby givesincreased .width to the troughs at their open seating ends 2 in the feedand water receptacle and gives full room for the head of the chick whilefeeding or drinking. For this purpose the troughed device is seatedwithin a pan or basin 3, into which the deepest and Serial No. 68,473.(No model.)

widest ends of the troughs open. For this purpose the open ends 2 of thetroughs preferably rest upon the raised rim part 4 of the basin, whilethe bottom of the basin may be raised either conical or convex, so as toform a gutter 5 around the base of the raised rim. In this gutter theends of the troughs open, and the food is held in the troughs Withinconvenient reach of the chickens around the base of the trough device.The upward sloping of the bottoms of the trough to the apex givesfreedom for the entrance of the heads of the chickens into the troughsat the gutter into which they open.

I have stated that the bottom of the basin may be of conical or raisedconvex form; but obviously a fiat bottom will form a drinking recess orshallow chamber beneath the group of troughs and holdthe water outsideof and around the open ends of the troughs.

It is important to note that all troughs are grouped in a compact form,so that the widest end of each is in communication with the basin. It isalso important to note the seating of a body having troughs in its wallsupon and over the tray, pan, or basin forms a cover or sort of barricadeto prevent the chicks from getting into it and fouling the food orwater.

The basin may be of any desired form and size, and the device can beused within and without the poultry-closure. It can be set anywhere andsupplied with food or with water for broods of chicks and both thetrough and the basin as separate parts kept clean.

It will be understood that in using the device for feeding the food willbe placed in the hollows between the walls of the troughs, within whichthe basin serves to hold the food; but for drinking the basin is keptsupplied with water and the troughs free of food. In these particularsthe device is well adapted for the feeding and watering of youngchickens.

As the corrugated trough device rests upon the basinwithout some meansfor holding it central or in proper position with relation to the basin,it would be liable to be shoved to one side of or oif the basin, and toprevent this I provide the troughs at two or more points at the cornersof their lower edges with hooks 6, preferably of wire, adapted to hookover and under the edge of the basin, and I prefer that the outercorners of the corrugations which form the troughs be at the outer edgeof the basin, so that each trough is bounded by the edge of the basinand the walls of the corrugations for containing the food, while as awatering device each trough opens into the basin within the base'of itsmm.

In Fig. 3 is seen the trough-Walls rising from the rimmed part of thebasin and the opening between the trough-Walls at which the chickenseat, while in Fig. 4. is seen how the troughs when containing no foodopen into the conical bottom of the basin for drinking.

I claim- 1. A feed and water device for poultry consisting of a pan orbasin and a conical body or cover having a plurality of corrugatedcontinuous troughs each of which increases in width and in depth towardthe base and terminates in an open end.

2. A feeding and watering device for poultry consisting ofvertically-inclined corrugated walls forming contiguous and continuoustroughs open at their lower ends, and a pan or basin the rim of whichforms a seat for the lower ends of the troughs.

3. In a feeding and watering device for poultry, the combination with acorrugated device forming a plurality of vertically-inclined contiguousand continuous troughs open at their lower ends, a pan or basin the rimof which forms a seat for the lower ends of the troughs, and hooks onthe outer ridges of the corrugations adapted to detaehably engage theedge of the basin to hold the separate trough part in proper relationthereto.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE CHARLES LATI'IROP.

Witnesses:

A. ROLAND JOHNSON, GUY H. JOHNSON.

